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Economic Times | 31 Aug, 2020 | 12.31PM IST
Prashant Bhushan contempt case Live News: SC fines Prashant Bhushan Re 1 in contempt case
SC says press conference by four SC Judges in January 2018 was wrong.
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Freedom of speech can't be curtailed but rights of others need to be respected
- SC on Prashant Bhushan contempt case
If Prashant Bhushan does not pay Re 1 by September 15, he will have to undergo 3-month imprisonment and be debarred from practice for 3 years
- SC
The Supreme Court says press conference by four SC Judges in January 2018 was wrong.
SC imposes Re 1 fine on Prashant Bhushan
Prashant Bhushan contempt case: Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra assembles to read out the judgement
I thank IAF, NDRF, SDRF & all officials for saving lives of the people amid floods
- Madhya Pradesh CM
Autumn session of the Assam Legislative Assembly begins
Guwahati: The four-day autumn session of the Assam Legislative Assembly, begins from today. https://t.co/GcDjJPmasn
— ANI (@ANI) 1598854559000A brigade commander level flag meeting is in progress at Chushul to resolve issues
- Indian Army on latest incident in Pangong Tso area
Indian Army committed to maintain peace and tranquility through dialogue but equally determined to protect country's territorial integrity
- Army
SC refuses to re-examine its verdict to convict Vijay Mallya for contempt of court
SC dismisses his review plea against the judgement saying that there is no merit in the petition.
Biggest one-day spike of 157 new coronavirus cases in Arunachal Pradesh
- Tally 4,034
- Active cases 1,205
Covid cases rising again in Mumbai as testing goes up
After being stable for a while, Corona cases in Mumbai are rising again. In July, the city saw an average of 1,100-1200 cases a day, which has gone up to around 1,300 cases in the last few days of August.
RBI governor rules out stagflation, expects consumer inflation to moderate
"I do not agree that we are likely to face a situation of stagflation," RBI governor told Financial Times in an interview published on Monday. "I am of the view that consumer inflation, going forward, should moderate."
Supreme Court allows states to grant benefit of reservation of seats to in-service doctors in NEET Post Graduate degree courses.
A 5-judge bench said that Medical Council of India has no power to provide or not provide reservation for in-service doctors in admission to PG courses.
On the night of 29/30 August, PLA troops violated the previous consensus arrived at during military & diplomatic engagements during an ongoing standoff in Eastern Ladakh and carried out provocative military movements to change the status quo
- Col Aman Anand, PRO, Army
1,873 new coronavirus cases in Telangana
- Tally 1,24,963
- Active cases 31,299
- Toll rises to 827
Future Group stocks rally up to 19%
Price as on 31 Aug, 2020 10:44 AM, Click on company names for their live prices.
There is a decline in the medical condition of Former President Pranab Mukherjee since yesterday: Hospital
There is a decline in the medical condition of Former President Pranab Mukherjee since yesterday. He is in septic shock due to his lung infection & is being managed by a team of specialists. He continues to be in deep coma & on ventilator support: Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt
Adani Group says it has reached agreement to acquire 74 pc stake in Mumbai airport
India Rupee rises to highest level against Dollar since March 5
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah discharged from AIIMS, Delhi
He was admitted here on August 18 for post-COVID care.
Adani Airports says it will acquire Mumbai Airport
Rajasthan: Lockdown to remain implemented in containment zones till 30th September
Under relaxed norms, open-air theatres will be allowed to open from September 21. Inter-state and within state travel of individuals and movement of goods permitted: Rajasthan Government
We hope to grow to pre-Covid level by Q3 end and close the fiscal with strong growth
- M R Kumar, Chairman, LIC
Total number of samples tested up to 30th August is 4,23,07,914 including 8,46,278 samples tested yesterday
- ICMR
Sensex surges 500 points at opening, Nifty above 11,750
Tata Motors, Hyundai win EESL’s order for electric vehicles
Tata Motors will supply 150 Nexon electric compact SUVs while Hyundai will supply 100 units of its Kona electric SUVs.
Kerala: Two CPM workers allegedly killed in Venjaramoodu, rural area of Thiruvananthapuram
One of them died on the spot while other victim succumbed to his injuries at Medical college hospital. 3 people taken in police custody.
Japan looks to AI as coronavirus challenges go-and-see quality control mantra
- At a factory south of Japan's Toyota City, robots have started sharing the work of quality-control inspectors, as the pandemic accelerates a shift from Toyota's vaunted "go and see" system which helped revolutionise mass production in the 20th century.
- Inside the auto-parts plant of Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co Ltd, a robotic arm picks up and spins a bevel gear, scanning its teeth against a light in search of surface flaws. The inspection takes about two seconds - similar to that of highly trained employees who check around 1,000 units per shift.
Trump told Abe he was Japan's greatest prime minister
India crosses 80,000 cases in a day, first country to do so
India added a record 80,092 fresh Covid case on Sunday, becoming the first country in the world to cross the 80,000-mark in one single day since the outbreak of the pandemic.
Visakhapatnam: Three persons rescued, one missing after swim at Yarada beach yesterday; search operation underway
TikTok owner says will abide by new Chinese export rules
- The owner of popular video app TikTok said Sunday it will "strictly abide" by China's new export rules, which could potentially complicate a sale of the business as demanded by US President Donald Trump.
- TikTok has been at the center of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing, and Trump signed an executive order on August 6 giving Americans 45 days to stop doing business with TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance -- effectively setting a deadline for a sale of the app to a US company.
Anti-Pakistan protest in London on International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances yesterday, the Sindhi Baloch Forum held a protes… https://t.co/hYk0niyahx
— ANI (@ANI) 1598839734000Singapore: COVID-hit Mustafa Centre to send back foreign workers
- Singapore's largest Indian origin hypermarket, Mustafa Centre, on Monday said it will send home its foreign workers, mostly Indian nationals, whose work passes have expired, as its business has been hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- The company will also stop paying employees who have not been called to work a "sustenance allowance" - believed to be SGD300 per month - and it urged this group of staff to take on a second job to earn an income, according to media reports on Monday.
China factory activity slows in August as flooding hits business
- Factory activity in China slipped slightly in August, according to official data published Monday, as the country grappled with the fallout from widespread floods.
- The closely watched Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) is a key gauge of manufacturing activity in the world's second-largest economy, which has largely bounced back after plunging in February due to dramatic coronavirus measures.
Indian economy likely to see record quarterly slump as pandemic hits
- Economists in a Reuters poll predicted that gross domestic product in world's fifth-largest economy will contract by 18.3% in the June quarter, compared to 3.1% growth in the previous quarter, the worst performance in at least eight years.
- The same economists predict a contraction of 8.1% and 1.0% in the September and December quarters respectively, which would dash any hopes of an economic recovery this year.
- India has reported over three and a half million cases of the novel coronavirus - third behind only the United States and Brazil.
US nears 6 million cases of coronavirus
- The United States neared six million coronavirus cases on Sunday, nearly a quarter of the planet's total, as nations around the world battle to contain the raging pandemic.
- Global coronavirus infections soared past 25 million, as countries tightened restrictions to halt the health crisis that has upended life for most of humanity.
Buffett's Berkshire takes stake in Japan trading firms
- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has acquired five percent stakes in five leading Japanese trading companies, it said in a statement on Monday.
- The stakes are valued at more than $6 billion according to Bloomberg News, and were acquired over approximately a year through regular purchases on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Berkshire said.
Census, NPR unlikely in 2020
The first phase of the Census and the exercise to update the National Population Register (NPR), scheduled for this year but deferred due to the coronavirus outbreak, may be delayed by a year as there is no sign of slowdown of the pandemic.
Israel reports 555 new Covid-19 cases; 114,020 in total
One person killed, five others wounded in shooting at Pancake House in Chicago: Police
Mexico's coronavirus death toll surpasses 64,000
Australia's Victoria state reports 73 new coronavirus cases, 41 deaths
India’s economy faces worst quarterly slump ever after lockdown
The lockdown from mid-March to contain the pandemic was a blow to the economy like no other. It brought activity to a virtual halt as businesses shut down and millions of workers fled the cities for their rural homes. That’s put GDP on course for the first annual contraction in more than four decades -- a full-year decline of 5.6%, according to a separate Bloomberg survey.
Record rain in Karachi submerges parts of city, causes power outage lasting 72 hours
UN praises Qatar for ending restrictive job scheme for migrant workers
Air India has been an asset, but govt shouldn't be running airlines, airports
- Hardeep Singh Puri
